Eighteen individuals who had been members of a number of totally different gangs working throughout the tri-county South Florida area have been sentenced to federal jail for drug- and gun-related expenses, federal prosecutors introduced Friday.
The investigations, which concerned the Broward Sheriff’s Workplace, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Miami workplace and different federal and native companies, resulted within the restoration of 23 weapons, three kilograms of fentanyl and 7 kilograms of cocaine, along with methamphetamine, crack cocaine and marijuana, federal prosecutors mentioned in a information launch Friday.
Every of the 18 had been members of Zoe Mafia Household (ZMF), a South Florida Haitian gang; a bunch referred to as the third World gang; and a number of totally different sects of the nationwide Bloods gang, prosecutors mentioned in a information launch. They’re residents of Broward, Miami-Dade or Palm Seaside counties:
- Andre Allen, 37, sentenced to 10 years for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl
- David Brown, 41, sentenced to 12.5 years for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl
- Tirell Caldwell, 26, sentenced to simply beneath 5 years for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon
- Johnnie Gibson, 51, sentenced to 14.5 years for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and cocaine
- Brionne Griffin, 35, sentenced to five years for possessing with the intent to distribute fentanyl, crack cocaine, cocaine, and methamphetamine
- Joseph Johnson, Jr., 46, sentenced to 10 years for possessing with the intent to distribute fentanyl
- Timothy Neil Lewis, Jr., 26, sentenced to five years for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime
- Makinson Moise, 35, sentenced to twenty years for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine base
- Arnicious Odom, 48, sentenced to 2.5 years for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and cocaine
- Wendy Previl, 33, sentenced to 10 years for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl
- Joshua Robinson, 38, sentenced to simply over 4 years for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine
- Robert Roseme, 28, sentenced to three.5 years for possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl
- Nolan Setoute, 43, sentenced to 1 12 months for possession of a firearm as a convicted felon
- Terrance Stanley, 40, sentenced to five years for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime
- Dorshawn Tate, 20, sentenced to eight months for possession with intent to distribute alprazolam
- British Wilkerson, 42, sentenced to five years for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime
- Byron Felecio Williams, Jr., 40, sentenced to five years for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime
- Kevin Williams, 31, sentenced to 1.5 years for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine
Lots of the circumstances concerned undercover officers speaking with the lads charged, generally with a number of defendants directly, to rearrange to purchase narcotics from them. Authorities executed search warrants at quite a few properties through the investigation, together with in Fort Lauderdale and Lauderhill.
Among the many males sentenced, Previl, was arrested in 2023 on a cost of aggravated manslaughter after his 1-year-old son, Zaire Cenatus, died from ingesting a lethal mixture of medication that included fentanyl, the South Florida Solar Sentinel beforehand reported.
Previl was arrested once more a number of months later in 2023, which led to the federal prosecution. A felony grievance filed in federal courtroom mentioned regulation enforcement performed a number of investigations between 2021 and March 2023 of Previl’s possession, sale and distribution of medication.